Contour Editions is pleased to present the new work of Andrea Borghi, Salnitter. This release is the latest development of the labelʼs effort to present works that explore the various possibilities of sound, while also engaging with studio experimentation, materiality, processes, and diverse techniques to create and treat sound. The labelʼs objective is to reach listeners and spectators on a personalized level while facilitating the independent distribution of sound and visual artistʼs work that are often hard to experience within the local community or the cultural landscape of the world at large. To find out more about Andrea Borghi please visit the artistsʼ section within the label at www.contoureditions.com
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Salnitter focuses on a continuous and constant material revision of various tactile, acoustic, electroacoustic, and electronic sources, being explored, taking shape and evolving over the years. The works were accomplished algorithmically with a MAX/MSP patch. The software's interface for live improvisation only controls the range of different degrees of organization between determination and indetermination, allowing for various levels of control and aleatoric results to take shape. The title Salnitter (saltpeter) refers to the medieval theological principle according to which creation is carried out for contraction. 
Andrea Borghi, 2015.
Finalized on 2014
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Salnitter
Artists: Andrea Borghi
Cat#: ce.cd_0006
Edition: 75
Format: CDR / Taiyo Yuden
Material: Archival pigment ink on Strathmore paper
Release date: October 2015
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Andrea Borghi | Salnitter(Excerpt)01_vvbp | Contour Editions 2015

Andrea Borghi - Discomateria # 13_Marble series   
Sound performance for modified turntables, marble disc treated and processed in real time with hydrochloric acid and various materials, computer + Max / MSP.2016
Recording_01.2016@Ⓒ3Sfotoarte: modified turntable, 12"marble disc, hydrochloric acid and various materials, computer+Max/MSP, speakers, mosaic_ 

Discomateria#13|(Live Rec Excerpt 2016)

  "A short set of six pieces on this 3" disc, constructed via software, microphones and other effects.The music is quite subdued,ranging from soft crackling to sustained, quasi-ambient, near-tonal hums, to ringing metal tones embedded in liquid splatter. Each brief track is discrete and self-contained and each is a very enjoyable nugget, often bearing a beguiling percussion/electronics feel. On the one hand, there are sounds and ideas here that I'd love to heard explored at greater length but on the other, there's something very satisfying about the notion of a delicious morsel. A small gem well worth hearing."

Brian Olewnick, Just outside, 13 October  2014   

http://sqrt-label.bandcamp.com/album/glyphe




Omaggio A Yves Klein #2(GLYPHE album - sqrt_2014)

Andrea Borghi | Omaggio a Turcato as part of the sound installation Musica per Turcato curated by Andrea Nicoli_CAMeC - La Spezia Modern and Contemporary Art Center, 2016

Andrea Borghi | Omaggio a Turcato(Excerpt)

Andrea Borghi: DiscoMateria #10 (2015)_ Lesa | 1940 modified turntable, coloured glass disc treated with glue and various dusted materials, sand-blastin surface treatment,
acid treatment, glue, resin, fixative, computer + Max/Msp.

Discomateria#10 Glass Series(excerpt)

Andrea Borghi: Prepared Turntable, rotating surfaces | 2017

Prepared.Turntable#1

text with embossed metal letters | prepared turntable | hand-made needle | 2017

Andrea Borghi | txtsund3_2017excerpt.

Recorded in Florence 
Residenze Kate | Tempo Reale
2017

Superelief_excerpt2018

artist residency at Lottozero: Tistre - sound performance for prepared turntable, discs made in textiles, computers, speaker.

Tistre.txtl#1_test

Yarn sewn fabric played on prepared turntable and stylus.

Tistre is the first outcome of an experimentation with textile supports, made by Andrea Borghi in 2018, during a residency at Lottozero textile laboratories in Prato. Fabrics and yarns are the materials with which he creates discs the shape and size of a Lp. He plays them with a prepared turntable, in order to exploit the reliefs of the weft and the warp as a surface from which to produce the sound with the use of special self-built styli and electronic treatments.

Tistre follows the path taken by the artist with Discomateria, focused on experimentation with different materials such as glass, resin, metal or marble, which become the source for the production of sounds.

https://www.dinzuartefacts.com/

https://andreaborghi.com/project/tistre/

Tistre_(Dinzu Artefacts /DNZ43/2019)excerpt

Field recordings of a windy day in Versilia, Tuscany, October 2010. Real-time  treatments via "Fazaar#4.03" Max/MSP application patch.  Directly generated. No overdubs.

Andrea Borghi - Laminare

performingVHS@NUB_10.03.19

VCR  CS  SS096
http://www.secondsleep.org/

VCR_excerpt side A

Andrea Borghi(born in 1974) art teacher, sound artist and electroacoustic composer based in Pietrasanta, Lucca (Tuscany, Italy).

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